Smithsonian Institution Collections

Drum

Smithsonian Museum

National Museum of the American Indian

Collection History

Collection history unknown; formerly in the collection of the Museo Nacional de Historia Natural (Santiago, Chile); acquired by MAI in 1930 via an exchange with the Museo National which was negotiated by Samuel K. Lothrop (1892-1965, MAI staff member) during the MAI's Thea Heye-Lothrop Expedition to Chile in that year.